"Losing Battle"

Why put off today
What you can do tomorrow?
The simple answer
In honesty and sorrow
Is push the calendar back
As there's too much to hack
In trying to get your life on track.
Whatever that may mean
Remains to be seen.
Too much to cope
A lifetime being a dope.
From the outside
You assume I'm fine
Well delve within
There's plenty a sign.
It's not all about being insecure
Nor being constantly poor
Why do you you think
My front door's secure?
Oh how I hate
My flat in a state
I want to change my life
But is it too late?
Every decade I set a goal
But when I 'reach' it
Life's still in the same hole.
Need to learn how to change
Bit by bit
It's the only way
To stop life being shit.
Hold onto that hope and...
Crack on, son
Crack on!

Dulwich Poet 9th October 2013

(A general appraisal of my shit life!)